[...] Falsworth, vampire, and guest-star Blade. I loved seeing the two interact in Paul Cornell’s Captain Britain and MI: 13, but I wouldn’t be interested now if Cornell wasn’t writing this one [...]

[...] across as “they all tried really hard and believed in themselves.” And so this does. I liked this book because of the characters, but when they’re all split up during most of the issue, that [...]

[...] was expecting something cute and funny (like Tiny Titans, for example), but I was surprised to see this comic skew a little older and [...]

Just think of the writer Geoff Johns could be if someone told him to just cheer up.

Cornell is getting some interesting hooks out of Spitfire, but I am not sold on the Black Knight. And Wisdom, Captain Britain, and Blade are all playing to their usual stereotype. Hopefully this is just the shake-out period, and when the writer gets a better handle on the boys they will become as fully realized as Jaq and Faiza. But I am worried that it is not just the characters that are editorially mandated, but the characterizations: “You will use X, and you will make sure that longtime readers can immediately identify them as X, so that we will sell as well as X used to.” I like X, I want to see more X, but the past is past, and Q and Z at least have a chance at attracting a new audience.

(But if “You will include Blade, because he had his own movie” is the price we pay to at least catch the occasional glimpse of Tink and Captain Midlands, well, it’s isn’t the Rulk.)

The team in that is: Wisdom, the fairy, John the Skrull, Captain Midlands and another new character who is not with the current team (writing cryptically).